The pull toward the external is so strong that usually people are not even aware of it. Just as you are reading this right now there are inexplicable forces within you which are pushing you to seek comfort and attach in some way to the material world. Whether we are focused on career, academia, hobbies, or even spiritual ambitions, as long as we are identified with our outward, physical activities of daily life, we will remain trapped in it, with barely any true consciousness to be awake internally.

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"This tantric practice demands an absolute quietude and mental silence in order to avoid the tenebrous intervention of the pluralized 'I.' Strong electromagnetic currents exuberantly flow in those instants of supreme voluptuousness; thus the couple enters into ecstasy or samadhi. From the coccyx of both the man and the woman, the awakening of the electronic solar fire, the igneous serpent of our magical powers awakens. This is a system that transmutes the sexual energy into Ojas (Christic force). The couple must restrain the sexual impulse and avoid the ejaculation of the semen. The restrained sexual impulse, makes the sexual energy of the Third Logos to inwardly and upwardly return throughout the canals of Ida and Pingala. Maithuna originates within the coccyx, close to the Triveni of the microcosmic human being, an extraordinary contact between the solar and lunar atoms of the seminal system. The advent of the fire is the outcome of the contact between the solar and lunar atoms of the seminal system. The gnostic tantric sadhana is very simple. During the tantric act, man and woman practice in the normal or ordinary sexual position; what is important is to withdraw from the sexual act before the spasm in order to avoid the ejaculation of their semen." - Samael Aun Weor

"Certainly, humanity lives in the battle of the opposites, among the crude fight of the opposites. Sometimes we are very happy; other times we are depressed, sad. We have epochs of progress, of well being - according to the Law of Karma - we also have critical times, in the economic and social field, etc. There are times when we become optimistic people and times that we fall into pessimism. It has always been seen that, after epochs of happiness, comes a depressive and painful period of time, etc." - Samael Aun Weor

The ascent of the Kundalini along the spinal cord is achieved very slowly in accordance with the merits of the heart. The fires of the heart control the miraculous development of the sacred serpent. Devi Kundalini is not something mechanical as many suppose; the igneous serpent is only awakened with genuine love between husband and wife, and it will never rise up along the medullar canal of adulterers." - Samael Aun Weor

"Kundalini" is a compound word: "Kunda" reminds us of the abominable "Kundabuffer organ," and "lini" is an Atlantean term meaning termination. Kundalini means 'the termination of the abominable Kundabuffer organ." In this case, it is imperative not to confuse Kundalini with Kundabuffer. - Samael Aun Weor

There are two lines in life: one we could call the “horizontal”, the other, the “vertical”, and they form a cross within ourselves, here and now; not a second ahead, not a second behind. The horizontal begins with birth and ends with death; before each cradle there is the prospect of a grave; everything that is born must die [...] On the horizontal are the processes of birth, growth, reproduction, aging and then death; on the horizontal are the vain pleasures of life: liquor, fornication, adultery, etc.; on the horizontal is the fight for daily bread, the fight not to die, to exist under the light of the sun. On the horizontal are all those intimate sufferings of practical life, of the home, the street, the office, etc. The horizontal line can offer us nothing wonderful. But there is another totally different line: I want to refer, emphatically, to the vertical. This vertical is interesting: in this vertical are the different levels of the Being; in this vertical are the transcendental and transcendent powers of the Innermost; in this vertical are the esoteric powers, the powers that divinize, the revolution of the consciousness, etc. With the forces of the vertical we can decisively influence the horizontal aspects of practical life; we can totally change our own destiny; make our life something different, something distinct, become something totally distinct from what we have been, from what we are, from what we have known in this bitter existence. - Samael Aun Weor

Even though it seems incredible, when Gnostic aspirants are observing themselves they do not remember their Self. It seems inconceivable that when Gnostic aspirants self-observe their mannerisms when they laugh, speak, walk, etc., they forget their Self; this is incredible, but true.

Nevertheless, it is indispensable to exert the remembrance of our Self while we are observing ourselves. This is fundamental in order to attain the awakening of the consciousness. Self-observing, self-knowing, without forgetting our Self, is terribly difficult, but frightfully urgent in order to attain the awakening of the consciousness.

What we are stating seems trivial to the people who ignore that they are asleep; they ignore that they do not remember their Self, not even when they look at their bodies in a full-length mirror, moreover, not even when they observe themselves in detail meticulously.

The forgetfulness of our Self, the lack of remembering of our Self, is indeed the causa causorum of all human ignorance. When any given person deeply comprehends that she cannot remember her Self, that she is not cognizant of her Self, then she is very close to the awakening of her consciousness.

Self-observation and inner remembering of one’s Self starts the development of the spatial sense, which reaches its total maturity with the awakening of the consciousness. Any truly awakened person can see, hear, smell, really touch and feel all things from the superior worlds. Whosoever wants to experience the reality of everything that happens in the superior dimensions of space must awaken the consciousness here and now. - Samael Aun Weor

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"We are asleep people, unconscious people, and this is what is serious. Unfortunately, we think the best of ourselves and don't even suspect that we are asleep.” - Samael Aun Weor

Without question the Essence, or Consciousness, which is the same thing, sleeps deeply... The Essence in itself is very beautiful. It came from above, from the stars. Sadly, it is smothered deep within all these “I’s” (egos) we carry inside. By contrast, the Essence can retrace its steps, return to the point of origin, go back to the stars, but first it must liberate itself from its evil companions, who have trapped it within the slums of condemnation. Human beings have 3% free Essence, and the other 97% percent is imprisoned within the “I’s”. - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion